#but if people would rather have that representation of vocals then i will and y'all will make my life a little harder

[beautifulpersonpeach]

BPP I love Jimin but the autotune is bad. 😔 I don't know how to feel about it. I wish Jimin did a song like Promise or Serendipity it wld be better for more people right? I hate how pdogg ruined Jimin's debut. We should admit it. Nobody is even streaming it on youtube. Armys are pretending it's a good song but kpop fans are right BPP, the song is bad.

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Ask 2:

Hi BPP,

I hope you are well.

I have read and continue to read your blog. You seem to think so highly of the rap line which is wonderful. My post isn't about them but I do like them more than the vocal line. Please note I am not trying to be negative with my question below. I am more curious because this has been observation lately..

I am not trying to be negative but I was wondering if you could help me understand this. Being in K-pop for a while, I knew I would come across BTS at one stage in my life. I have always known they are popular. I would have to be living under the rock to think otherwise. But one thing I have always heard is a discourse around Jimins popularity. Even before I got into BTS, I would hear Jimins name thrown here and there. I knew BTS had a guy named Jimin but recently I have been thinking that perhaps he isn't as popular as I had assumed. I would have thought his music video would garner million and millions of views easily but it's not even at 15 mil. How could that be? Similarly, people aren't purchasing his songs on iTunes. I see people begging them to buy the songs on twitter. My understanding was that he is the most popular member of BTS but looking at his views compared to the rest of the members, I am thinking he is on the lower side of popularity. I am surprised to be honest. I know popularity doesn't mean everything but wouldn't he need that to be a successful artist outside of BTS?

I am also not sure if the new song is good. The autotune feels too jarring. The video is nice but the song in itself doesn't do it for me. I would have really liked to minimise autotune. It would have also been nicer if his song was more on the lines of lie. I feel there is too much focus on visual representation rather than the quality of the song. People will listen to the song more than watch the video so it's disappointing. It's also not doing that well. I mean Taylor's re-released songs are beating him already. I am worried his album won't be successful. I was hoping they would use this solo era to gather more fans but I don't see how Jimin could possibly garner more fans with a song thats so jarring to listen to.

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Sigh, y'all should never say I didn't allow room for other perspectives in this space because I'm humoring this talking point far longer than I honestly care for. Not trying to be rude, just honest.

Hi Anon(s),

So... um, let's see. Please remember y'all are talking to someone who thinks UGH is the best song in BTS's discography. My playlist order for Set Me Free Pt 2 is:

Arson -> SMF Pt 2 -> UGH -> What Do You Think? -> SMF Pt 2

I mix it up with As I Am by JB and Khalid, Indigo, NewJeans, On The Street, and Smoke Sprite. For playlist switches I rotate between rock albums, hiphop, and lofi.

So, that's my taste. Usually.

What do you notice in all the songs in the first sequence? Think about it for a sec. With the exception of What Do You Think? to some degree, they all use autotune. A disgusting amount of it, and I love those songs so hard I would fuck them if I could.

I'm not sure if people understand what I mean when I say I'm a fan of BTS's music, that I'm an ARMY. I mean I actually love their sound and have reached this conclusion recently after following them since 2014. So PDogg's stylistic choices are ones I like most times.

Yoongi and Jimin are very similar. In my opinion. And there is no member who embraces autotune and pitch distortion more than Yoongi. He is also the only member who blatantly and unapologetically displays his alter-ego in his music - in Agust D - and that's not a coincidence. Jimin does the same thing or at least tries to create the same effect in SMF Pt 2 by using autotune. Pitch distortion is the easiest way to other yourself in a song, to create a secondary personality. Tyler Joseph does this a lot with a shadow personality within himself that he calls Blurryface in his music. Jimin in SMF Pt 2 is done playing games. That man has rage buried inside of him and somehow, he has transcended it. Yet he expresses that rage in his first song as a solo artist, through a secondary voice. The one that voices the animal in him. That Jimin is telling y'all to come correct or fuck off. And he calls out his opps. Yeah, his opps. It's Aave and yes it's sometimes unfortunate when k-pop idols use it, but sometimes it's not. Think of 'finna'. And none of the people up in arms about Jimin using that word give a rats ass that XG, a rookie group, have used it more often than Jimin to no issue, but yeah it's impossible for the idol so targeted by death threats the Texas police got involved, to say he's got opps. But I don't really care either way.

I digress. My point is the audacious and offensive use of autotune is the point in the song. It's aggressive. It's supposed to annoy you and if you happen to be a weirdo like me, it's supposed to tickle your brain. Like, this song seriously has me fucked up. I like it a lot and it's just a testament to years of discipline that I'm not looping it on Spotify.

Anon in ask 1, it's possible Jimin would reach a wider audience with a ballad, pop track like Promise/Serendipity, or a more conventional hiphop song. I'm sure he thinks so too, maybe. And yet that's not how he wanted to express himself. He chose the harsh autotune and I happen to think he sounds incredible with it.

Now Anon in ask 2, Jimin is one of the most popular members in BTS, and BTS is of course still popular. We both know that. But it's also true BTS has become less popular within k-pop spaces in general, but that's predictable given how the industry runs, and it's possible that was all you were experiencing Anon - an environment where BTS and by extension Jimin, just isn't that popular.

If that were even possible. Because like, this is Park Jimin we're talking about here.

For the people apparently begging others to buy the album, I guess they are simply people who strongly want Jimin to do well on the charts and are trying everything in their power to make it happen. I'm yet to see any of that personally though on my side of ARMY twt, what I'm seeing is organized and spontaneous purchases done out of love for the artist and his art.

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You both mention YouTube views/streams so let me just say something on it. Personally, I don't care. I mean I care enough that we at least try to meet the goals and I genuinely love the video so I've watched it multiple times today, but not really beyond that. All this to express the extent of my interest in this matter. But even I know YouTube changed their view-counting algorithm in 2021 to increase a migration of users to their paid platform, YouTube Premium. Views today are harder to count and so one way k-pop agencies have worked around to gaining views, is to buy ads on YouTube. Perhaps it would be great if BigHit was as involved as other agencies in helping that way, but they haven't been so far except for the Pandemic English Trilogy (PET), and ARMY has more reason to stay engaged. All this to say, the views we currently have are one of the best records the fandom has ever achieved for BTS, no matter how it stacks up to the others because there are too many people who love SMF Pt 2, are talking about it, re-watching it, too many of them to not be significant enough. For YouTube we're doing fine and enjoying it at our pace.

Also I don't know what y'all want me to say about how a white American woman performs on US charts, relative to BTS members. I'm curious, did you check for their relative performance on Korean charts? Since you're so interested in the question.

You don't need to be worried about Jimin's album not being successful. It already is.

[valeriemperez]

If Barry IS in jail, is he getting a lot less screentime for multiple eps? They rly gonna do that to their top actor when they couldn't manage to keep him MIA for even rly half of the premiere? Also, do you think he gets arrested at the end of tonight's ep (409)?

I don’t think he’ll have much less screentime. More like we will see the shenanigans at court for an episode or two, and then the shenanigans at Iron Heights with Warden Wolfe and the metas for an episode or two. And then hopefully at least one WA visiting scene an episode lmao.

Obviously this is an old ask, so you already know he got arrested at the end of 9.

The fact that the writers had Iris shade the double wedding is a big difference to how she is written on other shows. On the Flash, we can almost guarantee better writing for her. She’s allowed to speak her mind, do crazy shit and much more.

Even on Flash, she’s not always respected. But letting her shade the double wedding was a step in the right direction. I feel like people who say it’s OOC don’t get (or care?) how often Iris is silenced and must suppress her feelings for the sake of others. The fact that she feels free enough to be annoyed and throw some shade in Barry’s presence speaks to how safe she feels with him as well.

we were right about TotF! it’s so early though. this is not a sl that can last all the way to the end of the season- Barry can’t be sitting in jail or a courtroom from episodes 10-23. i think he can have 4 eps max of that, then he has to get out. i predict Dawn Allen will help to clear his name. i also don’t think we’re done with Neil Sandilands, i bet they bring him back somehow eventually.

I agree with you about it only lasting 4 episodes max and about Dawn helping him get out. I can’t wait! I expect Neil back in flashbacks at the very least, but I wouldn’t put it past Marlize to make herself a replica of her husband lol.

Seeing the deleted scene made me laugh. It was only a matter of time before the queen snapped. When Barry said “You’d kill him” to Iris, I like that he knew what his wife was capable of. To end this, Barry’s poor attempt to scold Ralph (Listen to the tone of his voice) when he said “You know how hard it is to run in flip flops?” had me laughing and shaking my head.

Candice is such an excellent comedic actress, we need more of this. And Iris/Barry together are a barrel of laughs.

Isn’t episode 12 called Honey I Shrunk Team Flash? how could Barry be in jail for that?

Perhaps Barry being in jail is part of the reason the team has “shrunk?” 

How much is Barry going to eat in prison? Lol he has a high metabolism poor baby

Oh, my goodness! He’s gonna starve!

I love WA so much that I’m the person watching fanvids on YouTube but to the other anon it might not be a bad idea if WA has a little time apart in upcoming episodes ONLY because then haters & fanboys can’t complain it’s become the WA show. Plus I wouldn’t mind seeing WA long for each other, just not for too long.

Haters will complain no matter what, but I don’t mind seeing WA long for each other either!

Has anyone ever suggested to the writers to make WA webisodes and post, that way it wouldn’t take time in the episode but we could still get quality WA content?

I don’t know if they have suggested it, but they definitely should! Depends on whether Grant and Candice are willing and have time, I suppose.

I’m not on twitter and I really would rather not be. But is it possible for people who are there to occasionally remind the writers that Wally has fans who care about him? Because I’m scared he’s going to be written off.

The more voices we have, the better it’ll be. But I’ll let people know to be more vocal - especially now that it seems Wally is headed to Legends.

The superc😒rp/Supergir👎 fandom wanna act like they’re progressive and shit for shipping white women and it’s not about race when they say James doesn’t have chemistry with Lena like I’ve been here since season one putas y'all be tryin to play y'all are the same ones who shipped Kara with cat grant and her sister before James cause they lacked chemistry. Stick to 😩licity and stop tryin to play up that fake woke bs.

Yeah, the “no chemistry” argument is BS for any couple honestly. Again, I totally get wanting more WLW representation but I will not stand for slandering black characters over it. Again, this is a problem across all fandoms and ships. POC, especially WOC and specifically black women get the short end of the stick in fandom from fans who don’t even realize how exclusionary and biased they are being.